Arthur H Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 561378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur H Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur H |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Committee on Research in Economic History: An Historical Sketch
The Committee on Research in Economic History was established in 1940, more than a generation ago. Most of those who were active in its creation and administration have died or retired from active academic life; and surely a fresh direction of internal evolution has altered, at least in important ways, the objectives of the discipline. Accordingly, it appears appropriate to set down here an account of what were the hopes and intentions of those e…
The Mystery of Fuel Wood Marketing In the United States
Although fuel wood still supplied 70 per cent of the total energy requirements of the United States in 1900, a marketing mechanism for the millions of cords consumed each year is not evident. Professor Cole concludes that no other commodity of such importance had such little effect on distributive institutions
Underground Social Capital
In the manner of the Creole tradesmen of Louisiana, whose lagniappe to their patrons is legendary, the Editor offers a similar bonus to readers of the Review. Instead of trifling presents added to a purchase, however, our lagniappe will be notes and documents illustrative of the evolution of business enterprise
Economic History in the United States: Formative Years of a Discipline
The American people have usually been regarded as forward-looking and progressive, willing frequently to move their activities from one place to another to attain their hopes and inclined to be impatient with the heritage of the past. But there seems to have been, almost from the beginning, a minority of people in this country who found pleasure in looking back over the road that they and their forebears had traveled and in encouraging a scholarl…
Aggregative Business History
One of the pioneers in the historical study of business and entrepreneurship recalls the origins of the two fields and suggests a synthesis as a basis for further research and analysis. The Editors and Dr. Cole welcome comments and discussion of these ideas
The International Scientific Committee on Price History
In September 1928, two eminent economists with an interest in price history met and conversed at Hanover, New Hampshire: Sir William Beveridge and Edwin F. Gay. The former was Director of the London School of Economics and the latter, Professor of Economic History at Harvard University. For some time Sir William had been conducting research in medieval English manorial records and had already amassed data on price movements of English commodities…
Business Enterprise in Its Social Setting
What Is Business History
As one grows old, he becomes increasingly annoyed at confusion of almost any variety; and that which continues to surround the concept of “business history” chances to impinge frequently enough upon my attention to impel me to try to reduce the disparities in concepts still existent among individuals interested in the field. Diversity of concepts was evident even among men interested enough in the area to come – in some cases, goodly distances – …
The Price System and the Rites of Passage
Recent Developments in American Business Administration and Their Conceptualization: A Discussion of the Chandler-Redlich Article (Spring, 1961, Business History Review)
Hugh G. J. Aitken, Arthur H. Cole, Muriel E. Hidy, Ralph W. Hidy, John G. B. Hutchins, Leland H. Jenks, Arthur M. Johnson, Harold F. Williamson, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Fritz Redlich, Recent Developments in American Business Administration and Their Conceptualization: A Discussion of the Chandler-Redlich Article (Spring, 1961, Business History Review), The Business History Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Autumn, 1961), pp. 429-444
A Note on Continuity of Enterprise
If an “index of continuity” for business enterprise could be constructed, it would show a distinct rise over the years. Reasons for and significance of this trend are examined, and distinctive mortality rates in various kinds of enterprises are identified. Appropriate data, however, have only recently begun to be recorded. With a sound statistical base, some form of enterprise life insurance may be possible; indeed, certain starts have already be…
The Relations of Missionary Activity to Economic Development
Business Enterprise in Its Social Setting
Business Enterprise in Its Social Setting
The Tempo of Mercantile Life in Colonial America
This study of the working habits of early American businessmen focuses on long-forgotten details that help clarify methods of the day and suggest that business in colonial times had not yet become an end in itself nor a dominant means for self-expression
Marketing Nonconsumer Goods before 1917: An Exploration of Secondary Literature
A History of Business in the United States
To which I would add ditto for graduate students and teachers in the rest of the social sciences. As the old lady said, when the vicar urged her to forgive her maidservant's sad lapse into sin and reminded her that life was made up of sinning and forgiving, should I do all the forgiving? Why should historians alone be expected to know what the other folk are saying? But if the others turn some of their attention to history, let them beware of Key…
Conspectus for a History of Economic and Business Literature
Economic and business literature has hitherto served restricted purposes, although by no means unimportant ones. Chiefly it has been called upon to explain specific events or trends, from the issuance of assignats to the decline oflaissez faire, or it has been surveyed to reveal the emergence and evolution of certain concepts significant for economic theory or economic analysis. Business literature has been especially neglected, unless one includ…
Committee on Research in Economic History
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Harold Adams Innis, 1894-1952-a Memoir
Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History
Journal Article Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. By Louis C. Hunter with the assistance of Beatrice Jones Hunter. Foreword by Arthur H. Cole. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. xiii + 684 pp. $10.00.) Get access Dewey A. Somdal Dewey A. Somdal Shreveport, Louisana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 38, Issue 1, June 1951, Pag…
Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945: A Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States
England's Climbing-Boys. A History of the long Struggle to Abolish Child Labor in Chimney-Sweeping
Journal Article England's Climbing-Boys. A History of the long Struggle to Abolish Child Labor in Chimney-Sweeping Get access England’s Climbing-Boys. A history of the long struggle to abolish child labor in chimney-sweeping. By Geokge L. PHILLIPS, with a preface by Arthur H. Cole. (Harvard University : Graduate School of Business Administration, 1949. Pp. 61.) Clara D. Rackham Clara D. Rackham Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: …
An Essay on the Proper Method for Forming the Man of Business: 1716
An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay
The first formal meeting of the Economic History Association after This death should not close without appropriate tribute to our initial president and the first real American economic historian, Edwin F. Gay. More than most members of the Association, I feel his loss, since in one capacity or another I had the good fortune to be associated with him for almost thirty-five years. And I am the more appropriate agent to render our common tribute, si…
The International Scientific Committee on Price History
In September 1928, two eminent economists with an interest in price history met and conversed at Hanover, New Hampshire: Sir William Beveridge and Edwin F. Gay. The former was Director of the London School of Economics and the latter, Professor of Economic History at Harvard University. For some time Sir William had been conducting research in medieval English manorial records and had already amassed data on price movements of English commodities…
Aggregative Business History
One of the pioneers in the historical study of business and entrepreneurship recalls the origins of the two fields and suggests a synthesis as a basis for further research and analysis. The Editors and Dr. Cole welcome comments and discussion of these ideas
Economic History in the United States: Formative Years of a Discipline
The American people have usually been regarded as forward-looking and progressive, willing frequently to move their activities from one place to another to attain their hopes and inclined to be impatient with the heritage of the past. But there seems to have been, almost from the beginning, a minority of people in this country who found pleasure in looking back over the road that they and their forebears had traveled and in encouraging a scholarl…
What Is Business History
As one grows old, he becomes increasingly annoyed at confusion of almost any variety; and that which continues to surround the concept of “business history” chances to impinge frequently enough upon my attention to impel me to try to reduce the disparities in concepts still existent among individuals interested in the field. Diversity of concepts was evident even among men interested enough in the area to come – in some cases, goodly distances – …
An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay
The first formal meeting of the Economic History Association after This death should not close without appropriate tribute to our initial president and the first real American economic historian, Edwin F. Gay. More than most members of the Association, I feel his loss, since in one capacity or another I had the good fortune to be associated with him for almost thirty-five years. And I am the more appropriate agent to render our common tribute, si…
A Report on Research in Economic History
By reason of the war, a report to the Social Science Research Council more extensive than any I have hitherto submitted seems appropriate. The war has affected us in several ways. Our "terms of reference" reflected the international situation, since they directed our attention to the economic history of countries embraced in the Western Hemisphere; it has steadily diminished the speed with which our research work has gone forward, until that work…
Entrepreneurship as an Area of Research
In his recently published volume on American economic history, Chester W. Wright says, in substance, that whereas he can give some account of the vicissitudes experienced by the several distributive factors of land, labor, and capital, he will have to deal in a very cursory fashion with the entrepreneur and with entrepreneurial gains since so little is known about them. I, for one, welcomed this statement of so eminent a student of American econo…
The Committee on Research in Economic History: An Historical Sketch
The Committee on Research in Economic History was established in 1940, more than a generation ago. Most of those who were active in its creation and administration have died or retired from active academic life; and surely a fresh direction of internal evolution has altered, at least in important ways, the objectives of the discipline. Accordingly, it appears appropriate to set down here an account of what were the hopes and intentions of those e…
The Mystery of Fuel Wood Marketing In the United States
Although fuel wood still supplied 70 per cent of the total energy requirements of the United States in 1900, a marketing mechanism for the millions of cords consumed each year is not evident. Professor Cole concludes that no other commodity of such importance had such little effect on distributive institutions
The Tempo of Mercantile Life in Colonial America
This study of the working habits of early American businessmen focuses on long-forgotten details that help clarify methods of the day and suggest that business in colonial times had not yet become an end in itself nor a dominant means for self-expression
The Relations of Missionary Activity to Economic Development
Committee on Research in Economic History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Business Manuscripts: A Pressing Problem
Perhaps there exists no better index of the increased sophistication of research in American economic and business history than the enhanced, still expanding utilization of manuscript materials, especially the records of individual businessmen and corporations. One has only to compare the scholarly productions of a generation ago—Copeland's Cotton Manufacturing Industry , Eliot Jones's Anthracite Coal Combinations , or Lippincott's Manufactures i…
Business History and Economic History
The ensuing remarks are addressed to two topics which seem to me important: (a) what conflicts, if any, are there between business history and economic history; and (b) how can research in the two areas be mutually helpful
The American Wool Manufacture
Wholesale Prices in the United States, 1825-45
THE investigation of wholesale prices in the United States for the period I825-45, here described, was undertaken with a dual purpose. First, there was need for a more complete account of the movements in individual and general prices for the period before the Civil War than had been given. The available series of annual index numbers, of course, gave no information of the movements of average prices during the year. Moreover, the diversity of mo…
Cyclical and Sectional Variations in the Sale of Public Lands, 1816-60
STUDIES that have been made of land sales by the national government in the pre-Civil War period -among others those of Donaldson, Treat, and most recently Hibbard have presented the general course of the movement. Such statistics as these writers have advanced indicate that there were three occasions when the volume of sales reached particularly great heights. These occasions were the years preceding the crises of I8I9, I837, and I857. At these …
The American Wool Manufacture
Tracking the Elusive Document
The historian of business encounters difficulties which are in some respects more baffling than those of other historians, especially if he attempts to penetrate the “dark ages” of seventy-five or a hundred years ago. The chronicler of political events has his party platforms, his speeches and private letters, his electoral votes, and the like. The literary historian has his books, pamphlets, and a flood of other material
The Course of Stock Prices, 1825-66
Statistical Background of the Crisis Period, 1837-42
N the endeavor previously announced to break ground for a thoroughgoing study of early American crises, which should proceed primarily upon the application of modern methods to the analysis of available statistical data, report has already been made upon various matters which concern the crisis period I837-42 the most extended period of severe misfortune not founded on political difficulties which this country suffered prior to the Civil War. Alt…
The New York Money Market of 1843 to 1862
A MONG few statistical series pertaining to American banking experience which have hitherto escaped adequate analysis are those revealing condition of New York City banks in forties and fifties, and that showing volume of clearings in New York City itself after I853. Of these series, former are result of governmental supervision which, after disasters of period I83 7-42, grew in ever-increasing thoroughness; and latter is a by-product of that gro…
Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1843-62
notable for other features, particularly the sharp and decisive collapse of values which swept away in a few months the inflation of as many years. Yet, despite such allurements, little effort has hitherto been expended in the investigation of business conditions during these years; and the present study was originally undertaken in an endeavor to break ground. The interval under consideration may be stated more precisely to extend from the close…
The New York Money Market of 1843 to 1862
Statistical Background of the Crisis of 1857
ECONOMIC surveys of the United States in the pre-Civil-War period never fail to make note of the revulsion of business which came in the year I857. Sometimes this is indicated as the culmination of a speculative movement of considerable, though uncertain, duration. Sometimes it is spoken of as a peculiar, almost quixotic, affair, deriving immediately from the failure of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, just as the of i837 is alleged to …
Facts and Factors in Economic History: Articles by former Students of Edwin Francis Gay
A Fragment from an Earlier Crisis
The exigencies of Government finance under the stress of presentday conditions call to mind the difficulties with which the new Federal Government and its youthful Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, were confronted at the beginning of the first Washington administration. Indeed the manner in which the first Secretary of the Treasury met these problems and the lessons which his solutions seem to have for the present emergency have occa…
The Bancroft Collection
The Baker Library is particularly happy to announce the gift by Mrs. Hugh Bancroft of Boston, of an exceptionally rich and complete collection on the South Sea Bubble. The collection contains books and pamphlets, with many manuscripts, broadsides, Acts of Parliament, and other fugitive items relating to this strange episode. Except, perhaps, for the material scattered on the shelves of the British Museum, no collection rivals this which was assem…
A Monthly Index of Railroad Earnings, 1866-1914
Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1700-1861
Business History and the Kress Library
The addition to the Business School Library of the Kress collection on business and economics presents as great an opportunity and challenge to the business historian as it does to the student interested in economic or politico-economic history. Here, for the first time at Harvard, is available a large collection of writings extending back to the dawn of printing, which have never been extensively surveyed from the particular viewpoint of the bus…
Charleston Goes to Harvard: The Diary of a Harvard Student of 1831
Entrepreneurship as an Area of Research
In his recently published volume on American economic history, Chester W. Wright says, in substance, that whereas he can give some account of the vicissitudes experienced by the several distributive factors of land, labor, and capital, he will have to deal in a very cursory fashion with the entrepreneur and with entrepreneurial gains since so little is known about them. I, for one, welcomed this statement of so eminent a student of American econo…
Acquisition of Material from the Poor Publishing Company
The old adage about an “ill wind” should have a qualifying phrase, at least as far as library acquisition is concerned. In order that libraries or historical institutions may benefit from others' adversities, it is essential that they have a friend in the neighborhood of the cyclone or other trouble-making wind. The Baker Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration was fortunate in having such a friend in Mr. Paul D. Babson
A Report on Research in Economic History
By reason of the war, a report to the Social Science Research Council more extensive than any I have hitherto submitted seems appropriate. The war has affected us in several ways. Our "terms of reference" reflected the international situation, since they directed our attention to the economic history of countries embraced in the Western Hemisphere; it has steadily diminished the speed with which our research work has gone forward, until that work…
Prices Paid by Vermont Farmers for Goods and Services and Received by Them for Farm Products, 1790-1940; Wages of Vermont Farm Labor, 1780-1940
Business Manuscripts: A Pressing Problem
Perhaps there exists no better index of the increased sophistication of research in American economic and business history than the enhanced, still expanding utilization of manuscript materials, especially the records of individual businessmen and corporations. One has only to compare the scholarly productions of a generation ago—Copeland's Cotton Manufacturing Industry , Eliot Jones's Anthracite Coal Combinations , or Lippincott's Manufactures i…
Business History and Economic History
The ensuing remarks are addressed to two topics which seem to me important: (a) what conflicts, if any, are there between business history and economic history; and (b) how can research in the two areas be mutually helpful
An Approach to the Study of Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to Edwin F. Gay
The first formal meeting of the Economic History Association after This death should not close without appropriate tribute to our initial president and the first real American economic historian, Edwin F. Gay. More than most members of the Association, I feel his loss, since in one capacity or another I had the good fortune to be associated with him for almost thirty-five years. And I am the more appropriate agent to render our common tribute, si…
An Essay on the Proper Method for Forming the Man of Business: 1716
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